Changes

reduced Kamon startup warnings and logs

* made loading of "otel-trace-reporter" configurable and by default, don't load it
* introduce new env var `DITTO_TRACING_OTEL_TRACE_REPORTER_ENABLED` which can in
  addition to `DITTO_TRACING_ENABLED` be used to just switch off OTEL reporting of traces

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

update to Kamon 2.6.5

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

prepare Ditto 3.4.0 release notes

* and update SECURITY.md to support 3.3 and 3.4 with security patches

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

reduce log level of 2 WARN log messages to INFO

* and get rid of thrown IllegalStateException, causing log WARNings

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

several small Ditto UI improvements

* add a tab "Message to Thing" to send thing messages
* add a loading spinner to the "Send" (message) button and deactivate it while sending
* update a complete Thing using "PATCH" and with the new 3.4.0 header "if-equal: skip-minimizing-merge"
* only send eTag if it could be retrieved when updating complete thing
* added missing "ilike" predicate to the search slot

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

made Ditto UI more responsive for mobile layout

* mainly the navigation

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

prevent browser from suggesting stored credentials for "search" input field

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

increase size of "Things" editor when editing a thing

increase width of edit mode editors to 90%

* apply bigger width also for editing feature and editing connection
* capitalize "Send Message"

apply fixes regarding message templates

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

show "_metadata" in readonly things JSON viewer

* in "edit" mode, "_metadata" is removed, so writing metadata is not supported yet

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

#1712 fix patching a thing, removing items did not correctly upgrade the thing on the UI

* fixed by solving the merge on Ditto server side, selecting all "extraFields" for each change .. that way, the complete updated thing is emitted via the SSE instead only the diff
* as a result, also deleted the "merge" functionality of the UI, also removed no-longer needed "lodash" dependency

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

added documentation for SSE "_context" extraField

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

fixed NormalizedMessageMapperTest, including new "value" field to expectations

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

#1631 fix putting metadata on a single property did not work

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

fix SSE overwriting message input fields

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

maintain SSE "Fields" determining behavior in backward compatible way

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

enhance release notes with UI enhancements

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

preserve httpStatus for other reason on faild create of thing

Signed-off-by: Aleksandar Stanchev <aleksandar.stanchev@bosch.com>

provide new option for "if-equal" header: "skip-minimizing-merge"

* which reduces the part of a merge/patch command to the actually changed elements, removing non-changed elements
* this reduces e.g. required storage in the MongoDB by a lot, if redundant data is sent often
* this also reduces the event payload to the actually changed parts of the thing

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

added unit test for "if-equal" header: "skip-minimizing-merge"

* also added documentation
* enhanced release notes + blogpost about release with last-minute addition

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>

update Ditto 3.4.0 publication date

Signed-off-by: Thomas Jäckle <thomas.jaeckle@beyonnex.io>